Example sentences of "[adv] soon [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm . |
| 2 | Businessmen will not soon forget that Mr Steinkühler has dealt a blow against Germany 's reputation as a financial centre . |
| 3 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
| 4 | As you gain in confidence you and the children will probably soon find that there is never enough time to do all the things you want to do . |
| 5 | The tendency of sergeants to follow the field-worker around and to ask what she had learnt also soon dissipated as the routine demands of their job became a more pressing priority . |
| 6 | These officials also soon discovered that direct approaches to rival firms for executives could be embarrassing , especially when they were turned down . |
| 7 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 8 | The visitor here soon realises that the unit of community is less commonly a village composed of the homes of farm workers , small-holders and other craftsmen , than a large unitary farm-estate with its branches of workers accommodated . |
| 9 | Er , I gather that the last letter that had from you dated the twenty fourth of November in which you say that you will get back as quite soon to decide whether you want to apply for one of these erm erm ways of dealing with the problem or not . |
| 10 | I admit love deserted me for a moment , but I pretty soon realised that this was not her fault . |
| 11 | The eight sections deal only with a small fraction of what a " big book about Greece " must have entailed , and the portions written ( covering most of those sections ) would add only about one fifth to the eventual modest length of B T. Furthermore , Nietzsche very soon decided that these particular sections of the book did not belong with the rest . |
| 12 | THE attentions of General Motors , the world 's largest car manufacturer , can be hard to resist — something Jaguar may very soon discover as GM and its US rival , Ford , slug it out for the hand of the embattled luxury car maker . |
| 13 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 14 | But I very soon noticed that , over the two beds nearest to mine , was the highly interesting word ‘ spiritualist ’ . |
| 15 | But the revolutionaries very soon found that they could not turn their backs completely on the methods of the past . |
| 16 | But I very soon found that I was much more like the companionable dog ! |
| 17 | Small shareholders ' champion Gideon Fiegel — the man who led the revolt against Sugar — has won a battle , but it is too soon to say whether or not he has won the war . |
| 18 | A hospital spokesman said it was too soon to say whether there would be any permanent brain damage . |
| 19 | It is too soon to say that the videodisc should be consigned to the scrap heap of technological history . |
| 20 | On past experience , a 15 per cent devaluation could be expected to feed through at roughly 3 per cent a year for five years , and if this is repeated , it is still far too soon to say that inflationary expectations have been beaten out of the economy . |
| 21 | Economists say it 's too soon to say if the shopping boom marks the beginning of the end of the retail recession . |
| 22 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 23 | Recent outbreaks of salmonella have declined to sharply , according to latest Government statistics , but experts have warned that it is too soon to conclude that salmonella is under control . |
| 24 | It was probably too soon to see if she had changed in her opinions of him . |
| 25 | They say it 's too soon considering that they just started work with Bull on them , as we ourselves noted . |
| 26 | It is too soon to predict whether these will be successful in the longer-term but they , together with other measures , have highlighted to staff the necessity of increasing research activity , both in terms of output and generating research income . |
| 27 | Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ . |
| 28 | Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ . |
| 29 | It is too soon to know if the initiative will touch off an Italian-style mop-up of Brazil 's mob . |
| 30 | Following the miners ' strike in 1984 , industrial action has sunk again , to what seems its lowest point in the period under consideration , though it is still too soon to tell if this will be sustained . |